Star Wars: Cross Paths 3

Chapter 33 - Future Empress

Mos Espa:

Ines and Leia were walking through the streets of Mos Espa, talking and watching closer the small kids, who were jumping and seeing the different stands with the most insane things on top of it.

"I can't believe they lived here and as slaves," Leia said looking around.

"Everyone here was a slave back then. According to some locals who told me and Luke, the last time we were here, this place was ruled by the Huts, many years ago, even before your father was born. But everything ended when we they died," Ines started to explain to her.

"You mean when we killed Jabba."

"You can say that," Ines smiled at her sister in law. "After that apparently Bib Fortuna ruled, but he was not that scary as the Huts, so he only lived inside the palace with his hunters and a poor bikini slave girl."

"Don't even remember that. I'm glad I choke the breath out of that disgusting slug," Leia said.

"I think you have more of your father in you, that your son," Ines laughed at her making Leia rolled her eyes.

"Do you think that they were succeeded back in the Palace?"

Ines had that question all afternoon.

"I hope so. Even if we don't like to admit to ourselves, but Boba Fett can be a good ally to be honest," she said looking around, hoping they would arrive soon.

She was looking at the spot where she knew they would come, when her eyes stop on a stand. But it was not the stand that made her gasp, but the person who was behind it.

"You've got to be kidding?!" she said, making Leia looked at her and the follow her gaze.

"What?"

"Please tell me that guy is not who I think he is," Ines replied, making Leia give a better look, and after a while she also gasped.

"I think it is."

"What do you say? Will we pay a visit to an old friend?" Ines smirked at her sister in law.

"This will be fun cause I doubt he will recognize us."

"That's what I'm counting for," she winked and making sure the kids were closer to her, they both walked towards the stand, where a man, now closer to his 60's were selling a lot of stuff.

When he saw the two women standing in front of them, and at the small kids, including Grogu, he smiled widely.

"Good afternoon." he said to them.

"What is that?" Bail asked looking at the many stuff that were on display on top of the stand.

"Oh this were things that once belonged to fellow friends back from the Jedi Temple, where I was studying when I was your age, before I had to hide from the mean people," He told looking at the kid, who frown and looked at his mother.

"Are you a Jedi?" Anakin asked the man.

"I was, a long time ago."

Ines and Leia looked at each other, rolling their eyes.

"What do you mean you were?" Ben asked. Somehow he was not believing this man.

"Because I had to hide for so long, I had to destroyed my lightsaber and stop using the force, which made me a little rust and I lost my powers. Now I'm just a normal guy, selling stuff to survive," he said looking down sadly.

"A Jedi don't lose his powers like that?" Ben replied shaking his head to the man.

"And how do you know about that, little boy?"